Perth weather: storm system could bring as much as 50mm of rain over Saturday and Sunday

Simon WhiteThe West Australian

Saturday, 9 June 2018 3:09PM

Wild weather set to soak Perth

The West Australian

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Perth could have received as much as two thirds of its average June rainfall by the end of the weekend, as the city cops a stormy soaking that started late Saturday afternoon.

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast as much as 15mm of rain to fall through Saturday night with potentially another 35mm to follow on Sunday.

With 50mm already in the metropolitan gauge after last week’s storms, the city could have as much as 95mm in the bag in June’s first 10 days.

June is historically Perth’s second-wettest month of the year, with 124.4mm on average.

BoM duty forecaster Luke Huntington said a weather system was expected to hit Perth from 5pm Saturday and would deliver solid showers and some strong winds.

“It’s going to be a wet night and that will continue overnight and through Sunday morning,” he said.

“We’re going to see these showers coming in with some thunderstorms in between...it’s not looking like the kind of thing that would lead to a severe weather warning but there could be strong quite strong wind gusts.

“Around the capes of the South West - Naturaliste and Leeuwin - there could be some 90km/h gusts. And in Perth it could get to 80km/h.”

Any hail is likely to be confined to the South West and the good news for Dockers fans is that most of the rain is expected to be gone by the time Sunday’s clash with the Adelaide Crows gets underway at 2.40pm.

It looks like being a cool but comparatively dry second week of winter with showers forecast on Tuesday and Wednesday and possible on Monday, Thursday and Friday.